Quality pairs well with inno if you want 30% infantry combat abilities. Innovative is also really good as it will help you with monarch points, giving reductions for tech idea and advisor cost on top of top tier policy. Moral isnt as strong late game but its very good early. Hope I healped! And Sorry for bad English, my mother tongue is Portuguese ?.ĭefensive gives you a nice moral buff which makes your units fights for longer, represented by the green bar when fighting.
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Innovative and Economics: they get a good synergy with Quality, but are subpar compared with others Admin Ideas, so I recomend to avoid them Įxpansion and Exploration: they are the weakest ideias of the game IF you are not full colonizer. Quality: they are subpar overal, except when taken with Innovative and/or Economics, for a newbie I recomend to avoid Plutocratic: a bunch of random and overal weak bonuses, never picked in 2500 hours of game Naval and Maritime: naval combat bonuses are useless overal, just build more ships to win naval battles and build shipyards for naval limits Įspionage: i found it useful for my last wc, but overal they are a waste most games Īristocratic: unless you play a cavalry centric nation (Poland, Hordes and maybe some Muslins) they are just subpar overal BUT there are certanly some very bad ones, that are a waste except when role-playing or when you really know what you are doing, they are: There are several good ones, depending on the country you play and what is your playstyle. When your siege ticks are under 15 days, dropping another 3 days off them is a LOT. And not taking early innovative makes late game warfare a LOT worse, simply because the siege ability policy is huge. Really though, it depends a lot on situation and if you intend to colonize early. In terms of diplomatic ideas, the powerhouses are diplomacy (amazing in the HRE due to the improve relations to get rid of HRE specific penalites, and the diplomat for stacking siege ability), and influence (more useful outside the HRE, as it makes large vassals much more practical and useful). This is obviously different if you start in a colonial region like africa, as then having exploration-expansion can be a good idea.
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I find it very practical just to take expansion on tech 10, and come out swinging super hard, and shortly after, follow it up with the free colonist parliament debate.
If you go exploration on tech 7, you can reach the new world from Iceland or the Iberian islands, but it will be before parliament (and the +1 colony debate) and most of the colonization techs, and you will generally suck at colonizing. If you intend to colonize, you need to take the idea at the right time.
It is more useful to have powerful diplomatic, colonization, or military value from your idea groups. Money just gets a lot less useful the more you have of it. Specifically, trade combined with lots of money saving ideas like quantity. I urge you not to go overboard on income generating policies and ideas. the rest varies between nice and not very useful, but those alone are enough to carry it.
A modest force limit increase is almost never wasted. Offensive is just a great idea group in general.
When you are under 10 day siege ticks, it is pretty easy to keep your army tradition up (army tradition's primary source, late game, is the 1 you get for every completed siege). Drop in 30% or so from other souces, And your siege ticks are under 10 days. With just a full spy network, full professionalism, and full army tradition, you have 45% siege ability. Fully drilled troops are a SILLY deterrent for the AI, and high professionalism again, stacks your siege ability even higher. The more you have, the more it matters, and combined with spy network strength, it makes wars ridiculously easy and allows you to build more drill and professionalism and protect what you have. It gives you 30% siege ability, and siege ability stacks nonlinearly. Innovative-offensive is probably the best 2 policy combo in the game. I will assume by your time played you are still playing in europe.